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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Edition Not Stated. Text in Finnish; fine hardcover in fine dustjacket; a solid copy; For their protection I cover all dustjackets with a new clear mylar protector; SATISFACTION GUARANTEED; ALL ORDERS SHIPPED WITH DELIVERY CONFIRMATION; Size: 6 x 8".

First edition, first printing of the rarest book in the Harry Potter series, a cornerstone of young adult literature, and one of the best-selling books of all time. First printing with "First published in Great Britain in 1997", the full number line "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1", "Joanne Rowling" for "J.K. Rowling", and "Thomas Taylor1997" (lacking the space) on the copyright page and "1 wand" listed twice (as the first item and last item) on the "Other Equipment" list on page 53. Octavo, original laminated pictorial boards, without a dust jacket as issued. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page, "to Bryony - who is the most important person I've ever met in a signing queue & the first person ever to see merit in Harry Potter. With huge [underlined 4 times] thanks. J.K. Rowling." Additionally signed and with a large original drawing by cover illustrator Thomas Taylor. The recipient, Bryony Evens was one of the first people to read the opening chapters of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first to recognize the workâ s inherent value, and perhaps the most instrumental figure in getting the book published. Working at the time at Christopher Little Literary Agency in Scotland, Evens was the first point of contact in receiving and sorting unsolicited manuscripts. Evens read Rowlingâ s submission of the first three chapters of the book and passed it along to Little, who approved that she obtain the full manuscript and promote it to suitable publishers. Given a small budget, Evens was only able to print three manuscripts to pitch to publishing houses and, after twelve months and twelve rejections, was finally given the green light by editor Barry Cunningham from Bloomsbury in London. Bloomsbury published the book on June 26, 1997. A year later, Bryony attended a Harry Potter book signing event where Rowling received her with open arms and warmly inscribed the present volume. Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International in 1990 when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series while on a delayed train from Manchester to London. The seven-year period that followed saw the death of her mother, birth of her first child, divorce from her first husband, and relative poverty. A true "rags to riches" story, the publication of the present volume would bring her from living on benefits to billionaire status. She was named the world's first billionaire author by Forbes in 2014 and the Harry Potter series has become the best-selling book series of all time. In near fine condition with a touch of rubbing to the extremities. At the time of the bookâ s publication in 1996, illustrator Thomas Taylor had just graduated from art school and was working at Heffers Childrenâ s Bookshop in Cambridge. At Heffers, Taylor educated himself on the childrenâ s book market and its major publishers and decided to submit a portfolio of his illustrations to the offices of Bloomsbury Publishing, including several drawings of dragons and wizards. Taylor heard back from Bloomsburyâ s editor, Barry Cunningham (who had recently decided to take a chance on publishing Harry Potter and the Philosopherâ s Stone after it had been rejected by twelve other publishers) almost immediately. Cunningham phoned him at Heffers and asked if he could create a design for the cover of a relatively unknown authorâ s first book about a schoolboy wizard. He sent Taylor an incomplete manuscript of the book and, after two days, Taylor had a final product: a watercolor painting of a young Harry Potter with his lightning-bolt scar standing next to the Hogwarts Express on Platform Nine and Three-Quarters. Only 500 copies of the first printing were published, 300 of which were distributed directly to libraries. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. An exceptional association and effusive inscription to the person who first recognized the value of Harry Potter. The first novel in the Harry Potter series and Rowling's debut novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone follows Harry Potter, a young wizard who discovers his magical heritage on his eleventh birthday when he receives a letter of acceptance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The book was first published in the United Kingdom on June 26, 1997 by Bloomsbury and in the United States the following year by Scholastic Corporation under the title Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. The book reached the top of the New York Times list of best-selling fiction in August 1999 and stayed near the top of that list for much of 1999 and 2000. It has sold in excess of 120 million copies, making it one of the best-selling books of all time. The majority of reviews of the popular book were favorable, revering Rowling's imagination, humor, simple, direct style and clever plot construction. Rowling's style has been compared to that of Jane Austen (her favorite author), Roald Dahl (whose works dominated children's stories before the appearance of Harry Potter), and even the Ancient Greek story-teller Homer. The first book in the series was followed by six sequels published on an annual basis between 1997 and 2000. The series has sold more that 500 million copies worldwide and has been â translated into 80 languages, â making it the best-selling book series in history and among history's most translated literary works.â The last four books in the series consecutively set records as the fastest-selling books of all time, where the final installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, sold roughly fifteen million copies worldwide within twenty-four hours of its release. With twelve million books printed in the first U.S. run, it also holds the record for the highest initial print run for any book in history. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was adapted into the 2001 fantasy film of the same name directed by Chris Columbus, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, and st.

First edition of one of the most influential and popular expositions of classical liberalism ever published. Octavo, original black cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Dr Karl Popper a fellow struggler for freedom with friendly greetings from F.H. Hayek." Also included is a letter signed by Karl Popper to his assistant Melitta Mew, presenting her with this book as a birthday gift (".It is the copy he sent me to New Zealand on publication of the book, with a beautiful dedication. And thank you for everything you are doing for my work (and me). Karl"), on his stationery of 136 Welcomes Road, Kenley, Surrey, and dated 23 January 1994. While this book was very special to Popper, he had been diagnosed with cancer and passed away from complications in September. Ms. Mew helped to put together Popper's lectures and essays in a book, which was published in 1996: "In search of a better world : lectures and essays from thirty years." Easily the best association copy in existence, as the lives of both of these great economists, Fredrich von Hayek (1899-1992) and Karl Popper (1902-1994) greatly impacted the other and their lives were intertwined. They both experienced the destruction of their Bourgeois Viennese families' savings by hyperinflation due to the fragility of the liberal society. While both men studied at the University of Vienna, they first met in London in 1935. Hayek was at that time employed at the London School of Economics and Popper was in the city on a visiting lectureship. While Popper accepted a position in New Zealand, where he was to remain until after World War II, he would also later assume a chair at the LSE, due to Hayek's influence there. Near fine in a good dust jacket. The British edition (which this example is) was published in March of 1944, preceding its American counterpart, which was published later that same year in September. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. "Hayek has written one of the most important books of our generation. It restates for our time the issue between liberty and authority with the power and rigor of reasoning that John Stuart Mill stated in his great essay, On Liberty " (Hazlitt, 82). Its arguments against economic control by the government inspired many politicians and economists. John Maynard Keynes has been quoted as saying, "[I]n my opinion it is a grand book. . . . Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement." While the Road To Serfdom placed fourth on the list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the twentieth century by National Review magazine, it was not as popular at the time of its writing, and Karl Popper was one of Hayek's few intellectual allies. He shared many of Hayek's views and Hayek even read the manuscript of Popper's own work, The Open Society and Its Enemies, prior to his publication of this book.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HEMINGWAY PRESENTATION COPIES EVER OFFERED FOR SALE: Inscribed by Ernest Hemingway to Hadley Hemingway and his son Jack (Bumby), on the dedication page, as Hemingway expands the printed dedication ('To Philip, to Charles, and to Sully') . Hemingway's continuing inscription, entirely in his hand in black ink, reads: 'also to Hadley and Paul and to Bumby with much love from Pauline, Ernest, Patrick. and Gregory, and all of Africa. The lion enclosed under separate cover is the same lion Pauline almost shot on page 40.' To our knowledge, this is the only presentation copy from Ernest to Hadley ever to come on the market. First edition, first printing of this classic Hemingway. Original black cloth stamped in gilt, in original jacket (jacket has a large chip to 'T' in title on spine extending to rear cover, with some other nicks and tears and tape repairs to verso; book has some minor fading in spots and light edge wear). Hanneman A10A (Scribner's seal and 'A' on title page verso; jacket complete with $3.50 price). Color frontispiece by Juan Gris; 81 b/w 'action photographs' on plates. 1 color & 81 b/w Illustrations. Hadley Richardson Hemingway, later Hadley Mowrer (1891-1979), first wife of Ernest Hemingway. As Hemingway later said, Hadley was Ernest Hemingway's greatest and truest love, the woman he betrayed to his everlasting regret. The subject of the recent 'The Paris Wife', she is a figure of enduring public interest. She married a second time, to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Mowrer in 1933, two years before this work was published. We have firm provenance for this book. The true first printing of the first edition in original jacket (green cloth binding has usual fading to spine and edges; minor wear; jacket has fading, nicks and wear from use). Hanneman A13A; with 'A' and Scribner's seal on title page verso. Decorations by Edward Shenton. [8],294,[1] pages.

First edition, first printing of the rarest book in the Harry Potter series, a cornerstone of young adult literature, and one of the best-selling books of all time. First printing with â First published in Great Britain in 1997â , the full number line â 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1â , â Joanne Rowlingâ for â J.K. Rowlingâ , and â Thomas Taylor1997â (lacking the space) on the copyright page and â 1 wandâ listed twice (as the first item and last item) on the â Other Equipmentâ list on page 53. Octavo, original illustrated boards, without a dust jacket as issued. In fine condition. With an original illustration by cover artist Thomas Taylor of Harry Potter on the dedication page. At the time of the bookâ s publication in 1996, illustrator Thomas Taylor had just graduated from art school and was working at Heffers Childrenâ s Bookshop in Cambridge. At Heffers, Taylor educated himself on the childrenâ s book market and its major publishers and decided to submit a portfolio of his illustrations to the offices of Bloomsbury Publishing, including several drawings of dragons and wizards. Taylor heard back from Bloomsburyâ s editor, Barry Cunningham (who had recently decided to take a chance on publishing Harry Potter and the Philosopherâ s Stone after it had been rejected by twelve other publishers) almost immediately. Cunningham phoned him at Heffers and asked if he could create a design for the cover of a relatively unknown authorâ s first book about a schoolboy wizard. He sent Taylor an incomplete manuscript of the book and, after two days, Taylor had a final product: a watercolor painting of a young Harry Potter with his lightning-bolt scar standing next to the Hogwarts Express on Platform Nine and Three-Quarters. Only 500 copies of the first printing were published, 300 of which were distributed directly to libraries. An exceptional example, easily one of the nicest examples extant. The first novel in the Harry Potter series and Rowling's debut novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone follows Harry Potter, a young wizard who discovers his magical heritage on his eleventh birthday when he receives a letter of acceptance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The book was first published in the United Kingdom on June 26, 1997 by Bloomsbury and in the United States the following year by Scholastic Corporation under the title Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. The book reached the top of the New York Times list of best-selling fiction in August 1999 and stayed near the top of that list for much of 1999 and 2000. It has sold in excess of 120 million copies, making it one of the best-selling books of all time. The majority of reviews of the popular book were favorable, revering Rowling's imagination, humor, simple, direct style and clever plot construction. Rowling's style has been compared to that of Jane Austen (her favorite author), Roald Dahl (whose works dominated children's stories before the appearance of Harry Potter), and even the Ancient Greek story-teller Homer. The first book in the series was followed by six sequels published on an annual basis between 1997 and 2000. The series has sold more that 500 million copies worldwide and has been â translated into 80 languages, â making it the best-selling book series in history and among history's most translated literary works.â The last four books in the series consecutively set records as the fastest-selling books of all time, where the final installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, sold roughly fifteen million copies worldwide within twenty-four hours of its release. With twelve million books printed in the first U.S. run, it also holds the record for the highest initial print run for any book in history. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was adapted into the 2001 fantasy film of the same name directed by Chris Columbus, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, and starring Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley, and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger. Warner Bros. bought the film rights to the book in 1999 for a reported £1 million ($1.65 million) and the film was released in November 2001 in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, Canada and Taiwan. It was a critical and commercial success, grossing $974 million at the box office worldwide during its initial run, and over $1 billion with subsequent re-releases. It became the highest-grossing film of 2001 and remains one of the highest-grossing films of all time. It was followed by seven sequels beginning with Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in 2002 and ending with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows â " Part 2 in 2011, nearly ten years after the first film's release.

First edition, first issue with first edition stated on the copyright page of the author's first major novel, as well as her first best-seller. Octavo, original red cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Jack L. Warner - Thank you for your courage and for a magnificent picture - with my profound gratitude - Ayn Rand. January 7, 1949." The recipient, Jack Warner, was the co-founder, president, and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios. His career spanned some 45 years, its duration surpassing that of any other of the seminal Hollywood studio moguls. Rand sold the film rights to Warner several years earlier with the contractual proviso that she would provide the screenplay, which would be unalterable. In fact, the director wanted changes, but Warner supported the author and honored the contract. This book's inscription, clearly referring to this, was presented about a half year prior to the film's release. Of Rand's fiction, The Fountainhead is generally conceded to be her most important and enduring work, a passionate portrait of uncompromising individualism. In the decades since its debut, the film has gained the critical acceptance, even the acclaim, that initially evaded it. Near fine in a near fine first-issue dust jacket with a touch of rubbing and no fading to the spine, which is endemic to this title. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell box by The Harcourt Bindery. One of the finest association copies possible, linking the famed author with the legendary founder of Warner Brothers and producer of the iconic film. Although Rand was a previously published novelist and had a successful Broadway play, she faced difficulty in finding a publisher she thought right for The Fountainhead. She let Macmillian Publishing go when they rejected her demand for better publicity (Branden, 1986), and when her agent criticized the novel, she fired him and handled submissions herself (Burns, 2009). After sifting through eleven more publishers, Rand finally released The Fountainhead with Bobbs-Merrill Company in 1943. The reception was instant, and The Fountainhead became a bestseller in two years. The protagonist, Howard Roark, whose character was thought to be inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, is a young architect fighting against convention. Cited by numerous architects as an inspiration, Ayn Rand said the theme of the book was "individualism versus collectivism, not within politics but within a man's soul." Rand chose architecture as the analogy of her heady themes because of the context of the ascent of modern architecture. It provided an appropriate mode to make relevant her beliefs that the individual is of supreme value, the "fountainhead" of creativity, and that selfishness, properly understood as ethical egoism, is a virtue. Some critics consider The Fountainhead to be Rand's best novel (Merill, 1991). Indeed, philosopher Mark Kingwell described it as "Rand's best work" (Kingwell, 2006). In 1949 it was adapted to film, produced by Henry Blanke, directed by King Vidor, starring Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Robert Douglas, and Kent Smith.

First editions of all fourteen James Bond books, each in their original [first state] dustwrapper, without repair or restoration. On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the limited edition, numbered and signed by Ian Fleming. The Man with the Golden Gun, is signed by and from the collection of the dustwrapper artist Richard Chopping. Together with six of the earliest continuation novels: Kingsley Amis' The James Bond Dossier and Colonel Sun (as Robert Markham); John Gardner's Licence Renewed; For Special Services (signed); Icebreaker (signed); Nobody Lives For Ever. A stunning set, a full catalogue description for each book is available on request. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Notes For children. Subjects Adventure stories. | Girls -- Juvenile fiction Edinburgh : Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1893 320 p. ; 20 cm.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in the original third state dust jacket professionally restored Very Good+. Scribners Seal Errors not corrected that verify true first printing: p.60, line 16-"chatter"; p. 119, line 22-"northern"; p. 165, line 29-"away"; p. 205-lines 9-10-"sick in tired"; p. 211, lines 7-8-"Union Street station". With 3,000 third state jackets printed this is exceedingly harder find than the first two jackets.

Exceedingly rare complete first edition set of all three books in Defoe's classic Robinson Crusoe series, including the scarce first and only printing of the third book in the series. Octavo, three volumes bound in full crushed red morocco by Francis Bedford with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. The set consists of: Vol. I. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where-in all the Men perished by himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself. First edition, mixed state with the famed engraved frontispiece portrait of Robinson Crusoe by Clark and Pine, the title in second state with semi-colon after London, third state of the preface with the catchword "apply" correctly spelled, and first state of Z4r with "Pilot" misspelled "Pilate" and "Portugnese" for "Portuguese", four pages of advertisements at rear. Bibliographic note tipped in. Vol. II. ; Being the Second and Last Part of His Life, And the Strange Surprizing Accounts of his Travels Round three Parts of the Globe. Written By Himself. First edition, second issue with the publisher's notice to the verso of the last leaf of the Preface and page 295 corectly numbered, folding map of the world and 11 pages of advertisements at rear. Volume III. : With His Vision of the Angelick World. Written By Himself. First edition, first issue with the catchword "The" on page 270, folding engraved plan of Crusoe's island by Clark and Pine, 2 pages of advertisements at rear. [Grolier English 41; Hutchins 52-71, 97-112, 122-8; Moore 412 & 417; PMM 180; Rothschild 775]. In fine condition. An exceedingly rare and handsomely bound complete set of this cornerstone in English literature. Often hailed as the first novel in the English language and purportedly based on the experiences on Alexander Selkirk, who spent four years on the uninhabited island of Juan Fernandez from 1704, the adventures of Crusoe and his companion Friday have attained mythical status in the history of Western literature. The book's success was immediate, a second edition being called for only seventeen days after publication of the first on April 25, 1719, with a further two editions published before the end of year. The Farther Adventures appeared on August 20, and relates how Crusoe revisited the island with Friday. A final part, The Serious Reflections, followed in 1720. "The romance of Crusoes's adventures, the figure of civilized man fending for himself on a desert island, has made an imperishable impression on the mind of man. much of modern science fiction is basically Crusoe's island changed to a planet" (PMM).

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie First Edition The Crime Club Collins 1936. A fine book, completely free of inscriptions or signs of previous ownership. Covers are unmarked. In like original bright dust jacket that has no closed tears or creasing. Scarce. For further images please see the Brought to Book homepage.

First editions of all three volumes of Jane Austenâ s masterpiece, her bestselling book during her lifetime which remains a landmark of English literature. 12mo, three volumes bound in full mottled calf with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, double gilt ruling and botanical gilt scrolling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins, all edges speckled black. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine. A very attractive example of this significant work in English literature. Originally titled First Impressions, Pride and Prejudice was written between October 1796 and August 1797 when Jane Austen was not yet twenty-one, the same age, in fact, as her fictional heroine Elizabeth Bennet. After an early rejection by the publisher Cadell who had not even read it, Austen's novel was finally bought by Egerton in 1812 for £110. It was published in late January 1813 in a small edition of approximately 1500 copies and sold for 18 shillings in boards. â The size of the edition is not knownâ ¦ perhaps 1500 copiesâ ¦ The first edition was sold off very rapidly and a second one was printed in the same yearâ (Keynes, 8). A novel of manners, the story follows the character development of young Elizabeth Bennet, an independent young lady who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness. â Elizabethâ s own energy and defiance of character respond to Rousseauâ s and the popular notion of the pliant, submissive female. None of her novels delighted Jane Austen more than Pride and Prejudiceâ ¦ She had given a rare example of fiction as a highly intelligent formâ ¦ This remains her most popular and widely translated novelâ (Honan, 313-20). Pride and Prejudice has consistently appeared near the top of lists of "most-loved books" among literary scholars and the reading public. It has become one of the most popular novels in English literature, with over 20 million copies sold, and has inspired many derivatives in modern literature. For more than a century, dramatic adaptations, reprints, unofficial sequels, films, and televised versions of Pride and Prejudice have portrayed the memorable characters and themes of the novel, reaching mass audiences. The most popular film adaptations include the 1995 BBC television adaptation starring Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy and Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet and the 2005 film directed by Joe Wright and starring Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet and Matthew Macfadyen as Mr. Darcy. In very good condition. Title page of Vol. I supplied in facsimile and pages [1]-4 re-inserted and tipped in.

Etat : Very good. First edition run of all 24 novels in the Tarzan series, including TARZAN OF THE APES in the rare original dust jacket and five inscribed books - along with Burroughs's rare 1917 AUTO-BIOGRAPHY and two further Tarzan titles. Tarzan is one of the most recognizable pop cultural icons of the 20th century. Beginning with the novels, but quickly translating to film and beyond, Tarzan soon had his own merchandise, piracies, and international adaptations (including Bollywood films and Japanese manga). Tarzan's relationship with the movies - beginning in 1918, during the early years of popular film - was especially rich. One producer of Tarzan films, Sol Lesser, described Tarzan's global market saturation with only slight hyperbole that "there is always a Tarzan picture playing within a radius of 50 miles of any given spot in the world - in Arab villages, African bush theatres and in pampas settlements down the Argentine way" (quoted in Abate & Wannamaker, 3). But Tarzan enjoyed many revivals in print as well; in 1963 "one out of every thirty paperbacks sold was a Tarzan novel" (Torgovnick, 42). For over 100 years, Tarzan has remained a vivid figure in our popular imagination. Tarzan's world is not all boyhood innocence: it also "embodies a powerful emblem of past white Western imperialism and, correspondingly, of the present colonialization of the world by American culture" (Abate & Wannamaker, 5). But alongside this, Tarzan has remained internationally beloved as a potent mix of the Rousseauian "noble savage" and the Swiftian "stranger in a strange land," - a mythic figure like Romulus and Remus (one of Burroughs's inspirations) or Robinson Crusoe (also an early literary phenomenon). Above all, the books were fun: as Ray Bradbury recollected, "we may have liked Verne and Wells and Kipling, but we loved, we adored, we went quite mad with Mr. Burroughs" (intro to Porges, xviii). This complete collection of the Tarzan novels features one of the rarest and most sought after books in Modern Firsts collecting: a first edition of TARZAN OF THE APES in the original dust jacket. Of the five books inscribed by Burroughs, two are among the earliest in the series: BEASTS OF TARZAN (#3) and SON OF TARZAN (#4). In addition to the novels of the main series, this collection includes the scarce early piece of Burroughsiana, a short memoir commissioned by the Republic Motor Truck Company on one of Burroughs's transcontinental journeys; only a few copies were bound in the deluxe suede binding, apparently for the personal use of the author. The final two included books are TARZAN AND THE TARZAN TWINS, which collects two Tarzan novellas for younger children; and THE OFFICIAL GUIDE OF THE TARZAN CLANS OF AMERICA, published by Burroughs as a manual for organizing and running a Tarzan fan club. Altogether, these books form an exceptionally comprehensive monument to the Tarzan phenomenon. 27 volumes, most 7.25'' x 5''. Original cloth bindings. All in original dust jackets except RETURN, BEASTS, and SON; EARTH'S CORE in a later Grosset & Dunlap jacket. TARZAN OF THE APES in rarest state, per Currey: title page cancel, W.F. Hall imprint in Gothic lettering, binding without acorn. Additional first editions outside the Tarzan novels: AN AUTO-BIOGRAPHY (1917); TARZAN AND THE TARZAN TWINS (1963); and OFFICIAL GUIDE OF THE TARZAN CLANS OF AMERICA (1939). Jackets of TARZAN OF THE APES, JEWELS, TERRIBLE, GOLDEN LION, and ANT MEN restored; a few others with tape repairs or chipping to edges. Condition ranges from fine copies (TRIUMPHANT, FORBIDDEN CITY) to very good minus (JUNGLE TALES, LORD); overall very good. Five inscribed books: BEASTS, SON, GOLDEN LION, INVINCIBLE, and LEOPARD MEN. AUTO-BIOGRAPHY and FOREIGN LEGION in custom clamshell boxes. A full inventory is available upon request.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Collection of 21,000+ desirable previously-owned hardcover books circa past 200 years of American & British authors primarily. All in English language. Thousands are 1st Editions & 1,000s have original dust jackets. Includes 1,000s Classics as well as popular authors & titles & quality lesser-known. Fills over 1,000 feet of shelving! $125,000. plus reasonable delivery costs. Can pack & ship overseas.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. Murder In the Mews by Agatha Christie First Edition The Crime Club Collins 1937. A fine book that is free of inscriptions. Very light foxing to edges. Covers completely unmarked. In bright original Robin Macartney designed dust jacket. The jacket is fine and has no nicks, closed tears or creasing. Scarce. For further images please see the Brought to Book homepage.

Hardcover. Etat : Wie neu. Etat de la jaquette : Wie neu. 1. Auflage. On offer is a comprehensive collection based on the writings of Raymond Chandler brought together over the last thirty-five years. The collection includes mostly fine original publications of nineteen of the twenty-four stories the author published in different magazines like Black Mask or Dime Detective (including his very first novelette "Blackmailers Don't Shoot"); two complete UK editions of Black Mask (1935 & 1936), over thirty first editions of Chandler's books, many in fine condition in fine (dust) wrappers, original publications in various magazines; a superb 1957 autograph postcard to his publisher Hamish Hamilton, discussing Marlowe's marriage to the "8 million dollar girl" (see picture), various editions of his letters, notes and papers; three books from Chandler's own library; a fascinating selection of books and writers mentioned in the Marlowe novels; works on Chandler; some movies, comics and memorabilia. While we intend to sell the collection as a whole, we are willing to part with some items that may catch your interest. You can view a fully illustrated catalogue (and e.g. enjoy photographs of all the original covers of all the stories) at ygrbooks. Signatur des Verfassers.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie First Edition The Crime Club Collins 1933. A fine copy with no inscriptions and no age toning or foxing to contents or edges. Covers are bright, unblemished and have no toning or darkening to spine. In a bright fine dust jacket with no creasing or closed tears, completely unfaded. An excellent copy.

First edition, first printing. Original blue-green cloth with gilt illustration and title to the front and spine, in the supplied first printing dustwrapper. Top edge gilt. Black and white frontispiece by Graham Robertson, complete with tissue guard, as issued. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little rubbing at the extremities. The contents, with some spotting to the endpapers and deckled edge are otherwise clean througout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rare first printing dustwrapper that is chipped with a little loss to the spine ends and corners with thin archival tissue paper strengthening to the underside at the folds. Correctly priced 6/- to the upper panel (subsequent editions were published at 7/6). Housed in a bespoke quarter green morocco solander case. An excellent example of this classic of children's literature and a genuine rarity in the first printing dustwrapper. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First edition in English of the authorâ s masterpiece, published just one year after the original French edition and before the American first, the Richard Manney copy. Octavo, 2 volumes, original publisher's terracotta cloth, decoratively blind-embossed, gilt titles to the spine. Twenty wood-engraved plates after Henry Valentin. In near fine condition with only light rubbing to the extremities and toning, with the bookplate of legendary collector Richard Manney. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise box. A superior example, scarce in the original cloth, with exceptional provenance. The Count of Monte Cristo, in particular, is "perhaps the outstanding work of fiction to reveal the futility of human vengeance, even when it attains its utmost completeness. Maurice Baring calls it the most popular book in the world" (Frank Wild Reed). First published in 1845-46, Dumasâ â most brilliantly successful novelâ (Harvey & Heseltine, 232) expresses â the frustrated dreams of its era and the deep aspirations of Dumas himself to unlimited knowledge, power and fameâ (Amelita Marinetti). The story takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the era of the Bourbon Restoration through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France. It begins on the day that Napoleon left his first island of exile, Elba, beginning the Hundred Days period when Napoleon returned to power. The historical setting is a fundamental element of the book, an adventure story centrally concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy, and forgiveness. It centers on a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from jail, acquires a fortune, and sets about exacting revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment. "The Count of Monte Cristo has become a fixture of Western civilization's literature, as inescapable and immediately identifiable as Mickey Mouse, and the story of Little Red Riding Hood (Lucy Sante). "One of the best thrillers ever written" (Reid, 134).

*** "Edition la plus belle et la plus complète de ce recueil." (Brunet) Lemaire de Belges tente de prouver, sous couvert de la fiction mythologique et héroïque, que les Germains et les Gaulois sont d'illustres descendants des habitants de l'ancienne cité de Troie. L'ouvrage comprend notamment le "Traité de la différence des schismes et des conciles", violent plaidoyer gallican après le retournement du pape contre la France. La Couronne margaritique publiée après la mort de l'auteur par Cl. de Saint Julien, est ici en première édition. PROVENANCES : I - Annoté en français par Jérôme Capelle, frère de l'Ordre des Minimes. Nous avons compté 106 annotations pour les "Illustrations" et 201 annotations pour le "Traicté de la différence des schismes". Certaines de ces notes sont particulièrement copieuses. Trois nous donne le nom de l'annotateur. On lit : (1) Scolies & annotations par frère Hierosme Capelle minime sur ce livre des Illustrations afin d'exposer aucuns passages et éviter aucuns erreurs - l'an 1560" (Illustrations, p. 3); (2) "Scolies de frère Hierosme Capelle minime sur ce historiographie françois commencées l'an 1560" (Illustrations, p. 8); (3) "Annotations faictes par frere Hierosme minime l'an 1560 a fin que les lecteurs ne cheoyent en erreurs" (Traicté de la difference des schismes., p. 6) ; Des recherches en archives permettront peut-être de trouver des éléments biographiques sur Jérôme Capelle; ou encore d'autres livres annotés par lui dans des collections publiques voire celle de Peiresc lui-même. Hierosme Capelle était-il relié d'une manière ou d'une autre à la famille de Guillaume Cappel (né en 1530), humaniste, éditeur des Mémoires de Guillaume et Martin du Bellay, traducteur de Machiavel (1553) ? La famille de Guillaume Cappel ou Capel - une famille de Parlementaires de Paris - comptait d'autres humanistes, dont Ange Cappel, traducteur de Sénèque et Tacite ou encore Louis Cappel, ardent partisan de la Réforme. II - Claude de Fabri (1545-1608), seigneur de Calas, frère de Reynaud de Fabri et oncle de Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc. On relève son ex-libris "Claude Fabrii" sur le titre, accompagné de la devise "Sub fide clara". Installés à Aix dès 1515, les Fabri, furent seigneurs barons (puis marquis en 1657) de Rians, seigneurs de Valavez (ou Valavoire), Callas et Peiresc. Claude de Fabri était conseiller en la sénéchaussée au siège d'Aix, reçu conseiller-clerc au parlement de Provence au mois d'octobre 1572, en la charge de son père. Il se démet de sa charge en faveur de son neveu Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc en 1607 et lui transmet son poste de conseiller au parlement d'Aix. Célibataire sans enfant, Claude Fabri s'est occupé de l'éducation de son neveu. Il a donc joué un rôle très important dans la vie de Peiresc. Ce dernier adresse un certain nombre de ses lettres à son oncle. III - Bibliothèque de l'érudit et bibliophile Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Pereisc (1580-1637), relié à son monogramme, avec son cachet au titre. Peiresc est né en à Belgentier (Var). Il fut étudiant à l'Université d'Avignon, ami du président du parlement Guillaume du Vair, puis reçu conseiller en la cour du parlement de Provence le 26 juin 1607 en la charge de Claude de Fabri son oncle. Par la suite il sera nommé abbé et seigneur de Guîtres en Guyenne (diocèse de Bordeaux) en 1623 avec la faculté de continuer ses fonctions de conseiller au parlement. L'office de conseiller au Parlement était à peu près équivalent à celui de député aujourd'hui par la fonction exercée et représentait un niveau social très élevé. Et dans la famille de l'humaniste, bien avant cette date, l'office de conseiller passait déjà d'une génération à la suivante tel un précieux patrimoine qu'il fallait préserver. IV - Georges Dubois, ex-libris contrecollé sur le contreplat supérieur. (1966). Très belle reliure attribuable à Simon Corberan, le relieur aixois de Peiresc. De légères mouillures, coiffe supérieure restaurée. Cartier, Bibliographie des éditions de Tournes 145. Brunet 3, 965 recueil. La Couronne margaritique publiée après la mort de l'auteur par Cl. de Saint Julien, n'est pas dans les autres éditions." - Tchemerzine IV, 161 : "Très belle édition." Cartier, Bibliographie des éditions de Tournes 145. Brunet 3, 965 recueil. La Couronne margaritique publiée après la mort de l'auteur par Cl. de Saint Julien, n'est pas dans les autres éditions." - Tchemerzine IV, 161 : "Très belle édition." *** In-folio de (16), 423, (1), 9 pp., 1 f. bl., 80, 72 pp. Maroquin rouge, filets dorés d'encadrement sur les plats, chiffre de Peiresc doré au centre, dos à nerfs orné. (Reliure du XVIIe.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * "Edition la plus belle et la plus complète de ce recueil" [Most elegant and most complete edition of this compilation] (Brunet). First edition of the the Couronne margaritique, published posthumously and composed in honour of Marguerite of Austria. The main work, Les illustrations de Gaule et singularitez de Troye, is a mythological and heroic fiction in which Lemaire de Belges sought to prove the ancient Trojan origins of the Germans and Gauls. The present compilation also contains the Traité de la différence des schismes et des conciles, clearly partisan of the gallican position following the Pope's adversarial stance towards France. PROVENANCE: I. Profusely annotated in French by Jérôme Capelle, brother of the Order of Minims. We have counted some 106 annotations in the 'Illustrations' and 201 annotations for the 'Traicté de la différence des schismes'. Some of these notes are lengthy. Three of these clusters of annotations reveal the name of the annotator. One reads : (1) 'Scolies & annotations par frère Hierosme Capelle minime sur ce livre des Illustrations afin d'exposer aucuns passages et éviter aucuns erreurs l'an 1560' (Illustrations, p. 3); (2) 'Scolies de frère Hierosme Capelle minime sur ce historiog.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. 1st Edition. The Moonstone Signed by Wilkie Collins First Edition Tinsley Brothers 1868. London. Published in three volumes. Original publisher's violet cloth covers. Spines lettered in gilt. Volume I (viii) + 316 pp Volume II (vi) + 298 pp. Single leaf of publisher's advertisements before half title. Volume III (iv) + 312 pp. Publisher's advertisements pp 311-312. From the Frank J. Hogan library, with his bookplate to front pastedown. Signed by Wilkie Collins to slip also affixed to front pastedown: 'with Mr Wilkie Collin's / compliments'. With an accompanying signed, dated and monogrammed personal notepaper leaf loosely inserted. Further images available on request. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Two volumes. Second state of portrait as usual. Two volumes. Second state of portrait as almost always. Contemporary calf rebacked at an early date, endpapers replaced. Some browning and rubbing. A very good set. FIRST EDITION. This is a handsome set of Teerink s A edition, the true first edition. As Sir William Temple s secretary at Moor Park, the young Swift had access to many travel accounts in Temple s library. A frequent reader of such books during his formative years, Swift began working in 1714 on his own fictional account of the travels of Martin Scriblerus. The success of Robinson Crusoe (1719) helped spur on the writing of the book, a satire not only of travel narratives but of many aspects of eighteenth-century life including politics, science, commerce, and society. By the 1720s that work had become Gulliver s Travels. In March 1726 Swift came to England for the first time since 1714, bringing the manuscript of Gulliver s Travels. To preserve his anonymity, Swift dealt with Motte by post and through intermediaries. It has always been assumed that political prudence was the main reason for Swift s so carefully preserving the secret of his authorship. Certainly Swift enjoyed the thought (whether real or illusion) of writing dangerously (Lock, The Text of Gulliver s Travels ). The author returned to Dublin even before the parcel had been delivered to the publisher. Although it was rumored that Swift was the author, he maintained the fiction that he knew nothing of the authorship in his conversation and correspondence. Motte hurried the book into print, using five printers who took different sections of the text. The initial printing (Teerink A) sold out within one week, and two additional editions (AA and B) soon followed. Gulliver s Travels was an immediate success, and the book has remained one of the enduring classics of English literature. John Gay wrote that from the highest to the lowest it is universally read, from the Cabinet Council to the Nursery. The influence of Gulliver s Travels has been vast. The terms Lilliputian, Brobdingnagian, and Yahoo have entered the language. The book inspired countless sequels, adaptations, parodies, and imitations worldwide in print, comics, cartoons, television, stage, and film. The wildly imaginative book became a source of inspiration for authors from Voltaire to Orwell, and it is one of the few works of fiction of its time that is still widely read for pleasure. Teerink 28 (A edition). Rothschild 2104-6. Printing and the Mind of Man 289. Grolier/English 42.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. Highlights include: an inscribed copy of the bound galleys of O'Brien's first book, issued under the provisional title of Fire In The Hole: War Stories Of A Part-Time Pacifist (1973), and an inscribed first edition in dust jacket of that book, published as If I Die In A Combat Zone Box Me Up And Ship Me Home (1973); inscribed copies of the bound galleys and signed first editions in dust jackets of both Northern Lights (1975) and Going After Cacciato (1978); a signed set of both the galleys and limited edition of Speaking Of Courage (1980); a broadside of A True War Story (1990); signed limited edition broadsides of The Nuclear Age (1980), How To Tell A True War Story (1987), Style (1990), "Stories Are For Joining The Past " (2008); a proof copy and a signed limited edition of The Nuclear Age (1981); a proof copy with a rejected-design dust jacket, an inscribed proof copy, and a signed first edition in dust jacket of The Things They Carried: A Work Of Fiction (1990); revised page proofs and a signed first edition in dust jacket of In The Lake Of The Woods (1994); signed copies of the uncorrected proof, advance reading copy, and first edition in dust jacket of Tomcat In Love (1998); the publisher's dummy and signed limited edition of Friends & Enemies (2001); a signed advance reading copy and an inscribed first edition in dust jacket of July, July (2002); and various contributory appearances and blurbs spanning the entire length of the author's career Approximately 410 items. A magnificent collection from a very fine private library. Please contact Clouds Hill Books for additional details and an illustrated catalogue of the collection. Inscribed by Author(s).

Small quarto (196 x 151 mm), two parts in one volume: pp. [1-4] 1-182 [183-184], title within typographical border, 6 woodcut diagrams in the text, woodcut head and tail pieces, modern full calf binding by Atelier Laurencet. First edition. A virtually unobtainable edition of a highly important early imaginary voyage to the Moon. "The 'Dream' is a curiously interesting tract for two reasons. First, its fantasy framework of a voyage to the Moon made it a pioneering and remarkably prescient piece of science fiction. Second, its perceptive description of celestial motions as seen from the Moon produced an ingenious polemic on behalf of the Copernican system." - DSB. The final part is Kepler's translation of, and commentary on, Plutarch's fantasy on the face of the Moon (see Nicolson, pp. 16-7). Kepler wrote SOMNIUM in 1609, circulating it in manuscript form, after which he amended and added to it, but the work was not published until after his death in 1630. "Around 1611, Kepler circulated a manuscript of what would eventually be published posthumously as SOMNIUM (A Dream), part of the purpose of which was to describe what practicing astronomy would be like from the prospective of another planet, and to demonstrate the feasibility of a non-geocentric system. The first version of SOMNIUM, a thesis rejected by the University of Tübingen in 1593, was shelved until 1609 when Kepler worked on developing it into its final form, a dream narrative with additional material on lunar geography. It was never published at the time, and during the 1620s Kepler, appreciating that it was too succinct and in need of further development, added 223 footnotes explaining the background theoretical physics and astronomy which expanded the text to several times its original length. He also included an essay on lunar geography with explanatory notes. Kepler died in 1630 and the compound manuscript was prepared for publication by his son Ludwig, together with Kepler's translation of Plutarch's 'The Face in the Moon' . Kepler's SOMNIUM was first published at Frankfurt in 1634 . The work remained little known for three centuries and was not reissued in the original Latin until 1969. It was first rendered into English in 1947 by Joseph Keith Lane as a thesis for a Master of Arts degree at Columbia University. This was never published. A partial translation of the basic document was made by Everett Bleiler in 1950, but it was not until 1965 that the first complete translation by Patricia Kirkwood was published by the University of California. The subsequent translation and commentary by Edward Rosen (1967, 2003), with its copious notes and introduction, is now regarded as definitive." - Howgego, Encyclopedia of Exploration: Invented and Apocryphal Narratives of Travel K2. "Ironically enough, the best of all supernatural voyages to the Moon was written by a great scientist. Kepler's SOMNIUM marks at once the end and the beginning of an era. No important later voyage will employ so fully the supernatural, yet none will be more truly 'scientific' than that 'Dream,' which was the fons et origo of the new genre, a chief source of cosmic voyages for three centuries." - Nicolson, Voyages to the Moon, pp. 41-7. ". Kepler's SOMNIUM has been very important in the early history of fantastic fiction." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1218. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 1-22; (1981) 1-109; (1987) 1-54; (1995) 1-54; and (2004) II-590. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 662. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel (1951), pp. 14-18. Versins, p. 493. First two leaves (title leaf and dedication leaf) affixed to stubs, dedication leaf closely trimmed, just touching letters on first line, margins of two leaves professionally repaired, faint old stamp on blank verso of title leaf, a very good copy overall. Enclosed in a custom quarter leather clamshell box. (#157025).

First edition. Elephant folio. Original illustrated boards, titles to front cover and spine in white, in the dust jacket. 498 pages, illustrated throughout, including 13 fold-outs plates. Together with the bookstand designed by Marc Newson. Issued with an 8 colour ink-jet drawing on cotton-fibre archival paper, measuring: 56 × 43.2 cm. In fine condition. All housed in the original packing box. Signed limited "Art" edition, "A" issue. This example number 177 of 250 copies signed by the artist and accompanied by Untitled 329, a print from David Hockney's 2010 iPad flower drawing series, signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left. (There were four "Art Editions", A (1-250), B (251-500), C (501-750) and D (751-1000), each of these limited to 250 copies and accompanied by one of a series of four prints on paper). Hockney takes stock of more than 60 years of work, from his teenage days at the Bradford School of Art, through his breakthrough in 1960s Swinging London, life by Los Angeles pools in the 1970s, up to his recent extensive series of portraits, iPad drawings, and Yorkshire landscapes. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Hardback. Etat : Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Good+. First Edition. [8], 9-286pp. Original cloth in DJ. DJ lightly browned, lower panel very lightly browned, minor chipping to corners, slightly rubbed, especially to joins, and very lightly creased. Spine of book lightly faded, endpapers lightly browned from the glue, small stain to top margin of A6-B4, otherwise internally quite bright and clean. Now housed in a morocco backed drop back box, with raised bands, spine in six panels, title lettered direct to second panel, author to fourth, and date to foot, all panels with double line gilt border, made by Temple Bookbinders. An early Hemingway work, published in the US as 'The Sun Also Rises', in the rare first issue dust jacket. A cornerstone of modernist fiction, Connolly notes that "here the post-war disillusion and the post-war liberation are united in the physical enjoyment of living and the pains of love", further opining that Hemingway became "an immediate symbol of an age" (Connolly, The Modern Movement, page 53). Hanneman 33A; Connolly, 'The Modern Movement', 50 Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Specially bound in full leather in 2 volumes. This is number 389 of a the special 750 copies printed on handmade, laid paper. Signed and dated in ink by James Joyce: "James Joyce, Paris, 9. ix. 1924" on the front endpaper following the front blue wrapper. Joyce's Signature has been authenticated by Glenn Horowitz of NYC. Volume I contains 370 pages. Volume II begins on page 371 and and ends on p. 732 with the "Trieste-Zurich-Paris, 1914-1921" dateline. The next page is printed in capital letters: "Printed for Sylvia Beach by Maurice Darantiere at Dijon, France." The rear wrapper is not present at the end of volume two. Both volumes have been specially bound in full leather with 4 gilt rectangular rules and a delicate inner rectangle of hand-tooled chain patterns culminating in larger floral designs at the inside corners of the front and rear boards. Both front boards bear the name of "JOAN" in vertical gilt capital letters. The spine of volume I is missing 6" of the 9.5" of the spine length, but the top portion with "I" is present. The front blue wrapper printed in White with "Ulysses" by James Joyce is clean and crisp, as is the text throughout volumes one and two. The top edges are gilded. And there are predominantly orange and grey marbled endpapers. There is hand-tooled dentelle gilding along the front and rear inside edges of the boards as well. Both volumes have some pencil scrawlings on the front endpapers, but nothing affecting the text. Despite the unusual two-volume format and the missing rear wrapper, modern first edition authority Allen Ahearn opined that this signed and dated copy in Joyce's hand of one of the 750 specially printed first editions is perhaps as scarce as one of the 100 signed copies, given that none of the 750 copies was issued with Joyce's signature. This copy was signed and dated two years after publication in 1924. This edition is limited to 1000 copies: 100 copies (signed) on Dutch handmade paper numbered from 1 to 100; 150 copies on vergé d'Arches numbered from 101 to 250; 750 copies on handmade paper numbered from 251 to 1000. This is copy No. 389. "The publisher asks the reader s indulgence for typographical errors unavoidable in the exceptional circumstances. S.B." In a review in The Dial, T.S. Eliot said of Ulysses: "I hold this book to be the most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape." He went on to claim that Joyce was not at fault if people after him did not understand it: "The next generation is responsible for its own soul; a man of genius is responsible to his peers, not to a studio full of uneducated and undisciplined coxcombs." The book has its critics; Virginia Woolf stated that "Ulysses was a memorable catastrophe immense in daring, terrific in disaster." Ulysses has been called "the most prominent landmark in modernist literature", a work where life's complexities are depicted with "unprecedented, and unequalled, linguistic and stylistic virtuosity." That style has been stated to be the finest example of the use of stream-of-consciousness in modern fiction, with the author going deeper and farther than any other novelist in handling interior monologue. This technique has been praised for its faithful representation of the flow of thought, feeling, mental reflection, and shifts of mood. (Wikipedia) First Edition, One of 750 numbered copies. Signed by Author(s).

First American edition of Bram Stoker's masterpiece, the progenitor of the vampire genre which remains â arguably the most potent literary myth of the twentieth centuryâ (Leatherdale, 11), signed by him and a host of other actors who portraed vampires. Octavo, original pictorial beige cloth stamped in blue and gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Harry Powers from Bram Stoker 16 May 1900." Subsequently from the collection of George W. Fuller with his bookplate to the pastedown, then Forrest "Forry" J. Ackerman who dedicated his life to building what many consider to have been the worldâ s largest personal collection of science fiction, fantasy and horror memorabilia. Ackerman purchased the book in the early 1950s and throughout the years had actors who had portrayed vampires, as well as other members of the horror genre, sign the book. Additionally inscribed on the front free endpaper by Bela Lugosi who starred as Count Dracula in the 1931 American film adaptation, "To my friend, Forrest Ackerman, in remembrance, Bela Lugosi" and signed by him again, "Bela Lugosi." Additionally signed and inscribed on the front free endpaper and pastedown by over a dozen legends of horror cinema including Christopher Lee (who starred as Count Dracula in the 1958 English film adaptation), Vincent Price, Bill Obbagy, Ingrid Pitt, Karl Freund, Donald A. Reed, Barry Atwater, Maila Nurmi "Vampira", Carla Laemmle, Carroll Borland, John Carradine, Raymond McNally, Ferdy Mayne, Paul Naschy, and Barbara Leigh. In very good condition with interior tape reinforcements to the hinges, rebacked. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A unique example, exceptionally rare and desirable signed by Stoker, Lugosi and such an assemblage of icons of the horror genre. First published in 1897, Bram Stoker's Dracula remains "[t]he world's most influential and enduring supernatural novel of vampirism, starring the most celebrated and evocative character in macabre literature" (Dalby). Contemporary reviews compared Stokerâ s masterpiece favorably to Mary Shelleyâ s Frankenstein, Emily Bronteâ s Wuthering Heights, and Poeâ s The Fall of the House of Usher. Since then it has engendered â arguably the most potent literary myth of the twentieth centuryâ (Leatherdale, 11). Related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles, the epistolary novel opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. Harker escapes the castle after discovering that Dracula is a vampire, and the Count moves to England and plagues the seaside town of Whitby. A small group, led by Abraham Van Helsing, investigate, hunt and kill Dracula. Dracula continues to occupy a significant position in the literary canon with a legacy of hundreds of adaptations for the stage and screen, most notably the 1931 American supernatural horror film starring Bela Lugosi and the 1958 English gothic horror film starring Christopher Lee as Count Dracula. â Bram Stoker has given us the most remarkable scenes of horrorâ ¦ Dracula is a panting engine of late Victorian sexuality, a sexuality that has been barely sublimated into violenceâ (Stephen King).

Etat : A fine copy. Four parts in two volumes, octavo; portrait of Gulliver by John Sturt engraved by Robert Sheppard and six engraved plates, five of them maps, by H. Moll; 19th-century polished calf gilt, spine gilt between raised bands, green lettering pieces, triple fillet border on sides, marbled endpapers with gilt dentelle borders, gilt edges; binding by Francis Bedford with his stamp. First edition, first issue (Teerink "A"), with the portrait in second state as is more usual. This is a fine copy of one of the greatest of all works of English (and travel) literature. From its first publication the success of Gulliver was immediate and sustained, its influence enormous. Gove knew of over one hundred eighteenth century editions and there have been countless since. Although it had its famous detractors (notably Samuel Johnson's famously dismissive 'When once you have thought of the big men and little men, it is very easy to do all the rest') it has become one of the best loved and most immediately recognisable works of fiction. No one was more surprised by this than Swift himself, who had said to Pope that the satire would never be published until 'a printer shall be found brave enough to venture his ears'. "Gulliver's Travels has given Swift an immortality beyond Temporary Fame" (Printing and the Mind of Man). Gulliver is one of the most famous English books of all time, and also the greatest work of literature associated with Australia. It is a crucial work in the Imaginary Voyage tradition, particularly for its use of a series of realistic framing devices which include maps, an editorial comment that the work has been greatly reduced by the omission of most of the material relating to winds and tides, and reference to genuine sailors such as Dampier or their props, such as Sanson's Atlas. Gulliver, who is made a cousin of William Dampier, comments at one point that he was 'coasting New Holland', and at another that he has been 'driven by a violent storm to the north-west of Van Diemen's Land' -- in the very year (1699) that Dampier was in fact exploring the Australian northwest. Gulliver is quite precise in his mapping of the lands he visits, and as Davidson notes, 'With a latitude given as 30°2' south, the imaginary Lilliput. is placed somewhere in South Australia, probably near the isles of St Francis and St Peter at the eastern end of the Great Australian Bight'. The frontispiece portrait of Gulliver here is in the second, more frequently found, of two states (with the inscription "Captain Lemuel Gulliver of Redriff. Ætat. suæ LVIII." around the oval and the tablet bearing a Latin inscription, printed on paper with vertical chain-lines). The first edition was released in two volumes on 28 October 1726, priced at 8s 6d. It was an instant sensation and sold out its first run in less than a week. It was immediately acclaimed, and it has been widely read ever since. It is uncertain when exactly Swift (1667-1745) started writing Gulliver's Travels, but some sources suggest as early as 1713 when Swift, Gay, Pope, Arbuthnot and others formed the Scriblerus Club, with the aim of satirising popular literary genres. Swift, runs the theory, was charged with writing the memoirs of the club's imaginary author, Martinus Scriblerus, and also with satirising the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is known from Swift's correspondence that the composition proper began in 1720 with the mirror-themed parts I and II written first, Part IV following in 1723 and Part III in 1724; but amendments were made even while Swift was writing Drapier's Letters. By August 1725 the book was complete; and as Gulliver's Travels was a transparently anti-Whig satire, it is likely that Swift had the manuscript copied so that his handwriting could not be used as evidence if a prosecution should arise, as had happened in the case of his Irish pamphlets. In March 1726 Swift travelled to London to have his work published; the manuscript was secretly delivered to the publisher Benjamin Motte, who used five printing houses to speed production and avoid piracy. Motte, recognising a best-seller but fearing prosecution, cut or altered the worst offending passages (such as the descriptions of the court contests in Lilliput and the rebellion of Lindalino), added some material in defence of Queen Anne to book II, and published it. Although at first castigated, Gulliver was recast as a parody after critics surmised the source of his name - a portmanteau word, or merger of "gullible" and "traveller". Achieving what the "gullible traveller" assumes to be utopia in the horse-land of the Houyhnhnms, Gulliver loses his objectivity, deserts his family, and moves into the stable to live with horses, whom his distorted value system now prefers as superior to humanity. The novel's striking success is testified by a letter of 17 November 1726 by John Gay (Correspondence vol. III, p. 182): "About ten days ago a Book was published here of the Travels of one Gulliver, which hath been the conversation of the whole town . From the highest to the lowest it is universally read, from the Cabinet-council to the Nursery". Gulliver's Travels has ascended to the final apotheosis of a satirical fable, but it has also become a timeless tale for children. . Provenance: Ralph Clutton (with armorial bookplate).